Yet Another Random Thought

Back in Princeton and in the grind again. Although it's a little easier now because it's warming up instead of getting colder and the days are getting longer instead of shorter. Also I'm coming off a long rest week now so I'm feeling a little better than when I was in the middle of my last hard training cycle.

So I realized today that I'm inside my last six months of rowing. It hit me when in a team meeting with the nine guys who are realistically in contention for the lightweight four that will race in Beijing today and we were discussing various scenarios later this summer, and I actually said to the group the words "I'll retire...." I'd been thinking it for a long time, and there's never been any question - and I didn't doubt the words when I said it... and I'm pretty sure I didn't surprise anyone. But it was still weird to say that. I've taken time away from the sport - but the finality of the words, and how close 'retirement' really is were kind of strange...

Later on I realized that when I am wrapped as a rower later on this year, I won't have to wear unisuits anymore - after all, they look really lame unless you are a rower yourself. And I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the ones of I've accumulated - I've got like 20. And they usually cost about $50 each. I haven't paid for most of them, but still.... that's a lot of uni that's not going to get anymore use.